Sunak Now Polling Worse Than Truss With Key UK Voters
- Rise of Reform Party is hurting Conservatives poll performance
- Tories have lost a net 520,000 votes since start of October
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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is doing worse than his short-lived predecessor Liz Truss among the voters that last put the Conservative Party in power, as many flock to the right-wing Reform Party, a pollster has found.
Sunak has presided over a “year of decline” that’s caused an “implosion” in the Tory vote, putting the opposition Labour Party firmly on course for power, according to a deep-dive analysis of polls conducted in Britain in the last 18 months, carried out by JL Partners.